Virtualbox clipboard not working

Question

I have problem to make the clipboard works on my VM the informations is following

• VirtualBox Version: 5.0.20 r106931.
• Host: Ubuntu 16.04 VirtualBox Extension Pack installed.
• Guest: Windows 10 Guest Additions installed.

i tried shutdown, reboot the VM many times and kill VBoxTray process but no help.

This is not a duplicate question i googled regrading the issue but no solution is found.

The screen resolution, shared folders and USBs are working as excepted.

How i can make it works ?

Update The clipboard is seated to Bidirectional. also it tried Host to guest + guest to host.

Solution

For me, OS X host virtual box 5.20, ubuntu 16.04 guest, bidirectional clipboard works with Ubuntu's Virtualbox guest package which is v5.18, but not with the Oracle extension (5.20)

Comments

[Mokubai]

Have you actually enabled the shared clipboard? The important part is to go to the Devices menu at the top of the VM, then Shared Clipboard and select one of the options. superuser.com/questions/42134/…

[RepeatUntil]

@Mokubai Of course i did sorry i don't mention it

[Mokubai]

Fair enough, it would be worth editing it in to your question then. The only reason I asked is because I spent at least 15 minutes wondering why it wouldn't work a few weeks back and it seems an easy thing to miss.

[Vans S]

Same issue. Seems 5.20 broke the clipboard. I am on a linux host as well.

[RepeatUntil]

@VansS a workaround, Go to VM Options + Display + Remote Display tap + put any port number ( use random unique port for each VM ) . Connect to your VM using Remmina or any RDP client you like.

[RepeatUntil]

Normal start or Headless start ?

[Tim Richardson]

My Windows guest on Os x also has bidirectional clipboard... so I guess something is not correct on your host virtual box.